Honor Cry: Aftermath

RPG Maker strikes again! Honor Cry: Aftermath is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker, some software generated character images, coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. This RPG Maker shovelware has a very unoriginal story about two soldiers ending a war, but it does boast some mediocre voice acting to go with the high school fan fiction writing, but that didn't really make any difference as far as public reception goes. RPG Maker games are widely disregarded amonst the gaming public and this was no exception. The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. That's right, only 2. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason. Honor Cry: Aftermath is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger.

This is not a game - finished it in 2.5hrs. Ignore it even if you get it for free.

Unfortunately, I couldn't bring myself to complete this game, due the intense amount of grinding. I get that it's a major selling point for many buyers, but I personally don't enjoy it. As I didn't get far, I can't really comment on the story/art, beyond that it's pretty much exactly what you see in the screenshots. The developer is really nice though, so maybe you should buy this game to support nice people? Idk.

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